Donna Louise Tartt was born on December 23,1963 and is an American novelist and essayist.
19 Facts About Donna Tartt
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Donna Tartt's work has been widely critically-acclaimed, and her novel The Goldfinch won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and has been adapted into a film.
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Donna Tartt was raised in the nearby town of Grenada.
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Donna Tartt's father, Don Tartt, was a rockabilly musician, turned freeway "service station owner-cum-local politician", while her mother, Taylor, was a secretary.
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Donna Tartt's parents were avid readers, and her mother would read while driving.
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In 1976, aged thirteen, Donna Tartt was published for the first time when a sonnet was included in The Mississippi Review.
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In high school, Donna Tartt was a freshman cheerleader for the basketball team and worked in the public library.
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In 1981, Donna Tartt enrolled in the University of Mississippi where her writing caught the attention of Willie Morris while she was a freshman.
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At Bennington, Donna Tartt studied classics with Claude Fredericks, and met Bret Easton Ellis, Jonathan Lethem, and Jill Eisenstadt.
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Donna Tartt's novels are The Secret History, The Little Friend, and The Goldfinch.
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Donna Tartt published her first novel, The Secret History in 1992.
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Donna Tartt's 2013 novel The Goldfinch stirred reviewers as to whether it was a literary novel, a controversy possibly based on its best-selling status.
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Donna Tartt was reportedly paid $3m for the movie rights but parted company with her long-standing agent, Amanda Urban, over the latter's failure to secure Donna Tartt a role in the screenplay writing or wider production.
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Donna Tartt is a convert to Catholicism and contributed an essay, "The spirit and writing in a secular world", to The Novel, Spirituality and Modern Culture.
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Donna Tartt has spent about ten years writing each of her novels.
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Donna Tartt won the WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend in 2003 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Goldfinch in 2014.
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Donna Tartt was included in Time magazine's 2014 "100 Most Influential People" list.
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In 2002, it was reported that Donna Tartt had lived in Greenwich Village, the Upper East Side, and on a farm near Charlottesville, Virginia; that she is 5 feet tall and that she had said she would never get married.
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Donna Tartt dedicated her second novel to someone named Neal, although she does not elaborate on his identity.